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This is not meant to be a listing of the top 100 recordings in order of their importance, or in units sold, merely our suggestion of 100 important - if not essential - jazz recordings. They are not ranked in any way. 80/81 —Pat Metheny Group A Love Supreme —John Coltrane A Night at Birdland, Vol 1 & 2 —Art Blakey Quintet Akoustic Band —Chick Corea April in Paris —Count Basie At Basin Street —Clifford Brown, Max Roach At The Opera House —Coleman Hawkins, Roy Eldridge Back at the Chicken Shack —Jimmy Smith Birds of Fire —Mahavishnu Orchestra Birks Works —Dizzy Gillespie Birth of the Cool —Miles Davis Bitches Brew —Miles Davis Black Brown and Beige —Duke Ellington Blues and the Abstract Truth —Oliver Nelson Boss Guitar —Wes Montgomery Bouncing With Bud —Bud Powell Brilliant Corners —Thelonious Monk Change of the Century —Ornette Coleman Chet Baker Sings —Chet Baker Conference of the Birds —Dave Holland Quartet Count Basie and the Kansas City 7 —Count Basie Creative Orchestra Music —Anthony Braxton Crosswinds —Billy Cobham Django —The Modern Jazz Quartet Early Art —Art Pepper Ella and Louis —Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald Ellington at Newport 1956 —Duke Ellington Far Cry —Eric Dolphy, Booker Little Footprints —Pat Martino Free Jazz —Ornette Coleman Giant Steps —John Coltrane Girl From Ipanema-Jobim Songbook —Antonio Carlos Jobim Groovy —Red Garland Heavy Weather —Weather Report Hot Fives and Sevens —Louis Armstrong In a Silent Way —Miles Davis Inner Urge —Joe Henderson Jaco —Jaco Pastorius Jazz at Massey Hall —Dizzy Gillespie Jazz Samba —Charlie Byrd, Stan Getz Jim Hall "Live" —Jim Hall John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman —John Coltrane Kenny Burrell and John Coltrane —Kenny Burrell and John Coltrane Kind of Blue —Miles Davis Konitz Meets Mulligan —Lee Konitz, Gerry Mulligan Live at Carnegie Hall (1938) —Benny Goodman Long Tall Dexter —Dexter Gordon M. F. Horn —Maynard Ferguson Maiden Voyage —Herbie Hancock Mercy, Mercy, Mercy —Julian "Cannonball" Adderley Mingus Ah Um —Charles Mingus Moanin' —Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers Money Jungle —Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus, Max Roach Moonlight in Vermont —Johnny Smith New Concepts of Artistry in Rhythm —Stan Kenton Nuages —Django Reinhardt Our Man in Paris —Dexter Gordon Out to Lunch —Eric Dolphy Portrait in Jazz —Bill Evans Pres and Teddy —Lester Young, Teddy Wilson Pure Desmond —Paul Desmond Quiet —John Scofield Saxophone Collosus —Sonny Rollins Silent Tongues —Cecil Taylor Sketches of Spain —Miles Davis Song Everlasting —Don Pullen-George Adams Quartet Song for my Father —Horace Silver Quintet Sonny Side Up —Sonny Stitt Speak No Evil —Wayne Shorter Stan Getz Meets Gerry Mulligan —Stan Getz Stanley Clarke —Stanley Clarke Study in Brown —Clifford Brown Subconcious Lee —Lee Konitz Sunday at the Village Vanguard —Bill Evans Swingin' Easy —Sarah Vaughan The Amazing Bud Powell: Volume 1 —Bud Powell The Birth of Swing (1935-1936) —Benny Goodman The Blanton-Webster Band —Duke Ellington The Charlie Parker Story —Charlie Parker The Complete Blue Note and Capitol Recordings... —Fats Navarro, Tadd Dameron The Complete Sidney Bechet Vol. 1 & 2 (1932-1941) —Sidney Bechet The Cup Bearers —Blue Mitchell The Eminent J. J. Johnson:Volume 1 —J. J. Johnson The Genius of the Electric Guitar —Charlie Christian The Incredible Jazz Guitar of Wes Montgomery —Wes Montgomery The Inner Mounting Flame —Mahavishnu Orchestra The Jelly Roll Morton Centennial, Complete Victor —Jelly Roll Morton The Modern Jazz Quartet —The Modern Jazz Quartet The Original Quartet with Chet Baker —Gerry Mulligan The Quintessential Billie Holiday Vol 1-9 —Billie Holiday The Shape of Jazz to Come —Ornette Coleman The Sidewinder —Lee Morgan The Ultimate Blue Train —John Coltrane Them There Eyes —Stephane Grappelli Time Out —Dave Brubeck Underground —Thelonious Monk V.S.O.P —Freddie Hubbard Vol. 1: Singin' the Blues —Bix Beiderbecke Vol. VI: Louis Armstrong and Earl Hines (Columbia) —Louis Armstrong, Earl Hines With the Oscar Peterson Trio —Lester Young, Oscar Peterson